Support for the Tissue Collection of the Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences

该项目将支持加州科学院（CAS）爬虫学系冷冻组织收集的进一步发展和持续扩大。 爬虫学系将获得一个超低温冰箱，配有自动拨号报警系统和组织储存用品。 卫生部将能够继续执行从新获得的标本中定期获取组织样本的政策。 由于裁军部的工作人员和外地工作人员在世界各地，特别是在非洲和亚洲的偏远地区从事收集工作，裁军部意识到这些组织样本对科学界可能具有的潜在价值。 考虑到这一点，该部致力于向科学界提供组织。 事实上，收集的大部分组织都是由校外科学界使用的，而不是用于部门研究人员正在进行的研究计划。 增加的冷冻箱还将大大促进两栖动物组织（储存在Osher分子实验室（CAS）设施中的5，000多个）与该部组织收集的整合。 在对分子实验室的组织样本进行物理重新鉴定的同时，该部门将把目前保存在分子实验室未索引的手写日志中的相关数据与主计算机数据库合并。 这将提高他们的能力，为科学界提供服务，使标本和数据检索效率高。 此外，在完成分子实验室组织的整合和计算机化后，该部将在其网站上增加一个可搜索的组织数据库，使科学界能够远程访问。

This project will support the further development and continuing expansion of the frozen tissue collection of the Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences (CAS). The Department of Herpetology will obtain one ultracold-temperature freezer with an auto-dialer alarm system and tissue storage supplies. The Department will be able to continue their policy of routinely securing tissue samples from freshly acquired specimens. As the Department's staff and field associates engaged in collecting efforts worldwide, with particular mention of remote localities in Africa and Asia, the Department is aware of the potential value that these tissue samples may have to the scientific community. With that in mind, the Department is committed to making tissues available to the scientific community. In fact, the majority of tissues collected are used by the extramural scientific community, not for the ongoing research programs of Department researchers. The additional freezer will also greatly facilitate the integration of the herpetological tissues (over 5,000 stored in the Osher Molecular Laboratory (CAS) facilities with the Department's tissue collection. Concurrent with the physical recuration of the Molecular Laboratory's tissue samples, the Department will incorporate the associated data, now kept in the Molecular Laboratory's unindexed hand-written log, with the main computer database. This will enhance their ability to serve the scientific community by making specimen and data retrieval highly efficient. Further, upon completing the integration and computerization of the Molecular Laboratory tissues, the Department will add a searchable tissue database to their website, allowing remote access for the scientific community.